Re: [RFC] kill sleep_on

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Sat Jan 17 2004 - 18:48:45 EST


On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 20:10 +0000,
viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> AFAICS, _all_ uses of sleep_on() in drivers are broken in one way or another
> and BKL won't help them.

I think ext3 and nfs get away with it at the moment by using the BKL. It
does want fixing though.

--
dwmw2


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